Reading Paul Graham's latest as well as having written a few things today that involved considerable rewriting before I sent them out (this blog entry not^W amoung them!), I'd like the following:

A way, when saving a file in vim, to have it replay the undo buffer in reverse, outputtng whole series of snapshots documenting the changes that were made to the file. And an easy way to commit those snapshots, in order, to git, at the same time the final file is checked in.

This would address that period in the lifecycle of a file when it's too new, its author too busy, and its situation too precarious, for it to be checked in yet. These early stages can be very interesting, and generally go unrecorded.

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